All Features articles – Page 518
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FeaturesA decade of distinction
Ten years of Building Awards has had everything from a giant hard hat paraded by Roman centurions to a Brazilian carnival …
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FeaturesEntrepreneur of the year
Three firms prove a bit of imagination can transform a business, with the winning prize, sponsored by Taylor Woodrow, going to independent-minded SmartNewHomes.com
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FeaturesOrient express
It takes skill and effort to get started, but once you do you're on a fast-track to success. We talk to recruiter Ed Twaite about the Chinese job market
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FeaturesWho got the most gongs?
Here's a special mention for those companies who have accumulated a staggering four or more trophies …
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Spring hopes
In this month’s Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports a February slowdown but expects growth in the UK construction industry to gather speed in the three months to June
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FeaturesProject/construction manager of the year
Davis Langdon scooped this Kawneer-sponsored award with its amazingly successful expansion into the world of project management – it seems it can't put a foot wrong
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FeaturesManufacturer of the year
Schüco puts as much effort into everyday training as it does into flash innovation, which won the admiration of our specifier academy in this Barbour Index-sponsored category
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FeaturesThe people's palace
Herzog & de Meuron's 110,000-seater centrepiece for the 2008 Olympics has taken the austere, technocratic tradition of stadium design and dropped it in the bin. Instead, it has conceived something that is beautiful, allusive and civic minded – as we found out
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FeaturesPersonality of the year
Jon Rouse has expanded CABE beyond recognition and made urban design a government issue, an achievement that is worthy of this award, sponsored by Speedy Hire
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FeaturesA television quiz
How do you stop an enormous falling-over building located in the middle of an earthquake zone from falling over? We find out how Arup is going about it at the headquarters of Central Chinese State Television
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FeaturesThe government is evolving the ideal eco-friendly home for the 21st century. But can we afford it?
A leaked report has revealed how the government is planning to put the burden of its demanding environmental policy on housebuilders. We look at the plans and their implications
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Eastern block
London's Whitechapel district is one of the most aggressively hard-core inner city areas in Britain. Architect Wright & Wright was asked to design a law department for London Metropolitan University on a long, thin slice of it. We find out how it tackled the brief.
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FeaturesCost model: Office refurbishment
Although recovery in the commercial market may be just around the corner, canny developers are already active generating good returns in refurbishment. Here Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall look at the opportunities and constraints in bringing existing buildings bang up to date
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FeaturesMake my day
Duncan Innes, the director of English Partnerships, is seen as John Prescott's enforcer for the all-important task of building houses in the South-east. But it would be difficult to imagine a more mild-mannered Dirty Harry, as we found out.
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FeaturesStage magic
Or how Grimshaw transformed precision, clarity and a stumbling quest for answers into nine performance arts spaces in a scientific research centre in upstate New York
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FeaturesThere's a visitor for you
That alien spaceship over there is the bird flu virus, and its favourite place to be is in modern hospitals, because they seem to have been specially designed to help it infect its victims. We look at how engineers and microbiologists are fighting back
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FeaturesAce venturer
Four months in and Nelson Ogunshakin, the Association of Consulting Engineers' new chief executive, is steering his ship into unchartered waters. He tells Kate Allen why his plans simply can't fail.